The Atlantic discusses job creation in both words and graphs. Derek Thompson breaks down the problem, explains where the jobs are hiding and tells us how we can grow, economically.…
If anyone wonder where I am this weekend, I’ll probably be identifying mid-century modern typefaces. Spanish architecture porn. You best stay away from me bad-ass spider. You best stay away…
Archaeologists digging in a 5,000 year old grave have found a “third gender” caveman. The man was buried in the style of a woman, and because of the culture’s strict…
Reexamining Romeo and Juliet is realizing that you, as a reader, are part of the drama. This HTML giant essay considers how we complicate our lives and thereby, create a…
A text messaging punctuation choice speaks a thousand words. Texts are rife with innuendo. Comedy writer, Sam Greenspan attempts to deconstruct those subtleties to help you interpret your cellular interactions.…
For all the short story readers and writers out there—this Millions essay considers the ups and downs of short story publishing and their synchronistic decline with the mass market magazine…
McSweeney’s is expanding evermore, this time to include a readership of youngsters and their literary-minded parents. This month they are coming out with McMullens, their children’s book imprint, set to…
Remember all those VHS tapes that added up to a compendium of everlasting Civil War knowledge? It turns out Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary series isn’t entirely accurate, but in…
A found 16 mm film, chopped up. In color, silent, probably from the late 1940s. A warning (or invitation?) to “do not screen.” A unique activation code to bring the…
E.B. White’s anthropomorphisms became childhood story staples, but they were also were a method of expressing himself to his family, and furthermore, significant in the evolution of nature writing. This…
Facebook is giving you the sads. This week in new iconic space pictures. Behold the first living wall painting. 60s and 70s French magazine covers will always make me happy.…
Helen Dunmore wrote the beautiful new introduction to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published online by Granta, in conjunction with their latest, feminism-themed issue, The F-Word. The beginning of summer…